Opening my eyes, I saw the blinding light of sun penetrating my windows as it emits heat while caressing my almost naked body. My mind that just woken up, felt offended by all of this and couldn't help but wonder, would the sun take responsibility for molesting and impregnating my defenseless body?
After a couple seconds of thinking, I sighed. Slowly, I sat up and calmed my mind.
Inspecting my body thoroughly, making sure that there is no problem in it, I again breathed a sigh.
My body is currently in a not bad condition right now. Even though it was overworked and needed a couple days of rest, my body is stronger now. Muscles, meridians, veins, internal organs, and other important parts of my body got strengthened to its limit. Actually if I wanted to, I could probably unlock the third meridian immediately. But of course I wont do that. From everything that my body experienced earlier, it was obvious that I would need a couple days of rest before I could breakthrough. Besides, I'm not in a hurry, I could just use those days to build my foundation better.
Remembering the way I courted death earlier made my whole body covered with cold sweat. I couldn't help but curse the old me for not thinking, and directly swallowing a pill like a fcking retard! The good thing is nothing happened. If I died because of that, I would probably be labeled as the most idiot cultivator ever. Well, at least I learned my lesson now.
Stretching my neck, cracking my knuckles, standing up twisting my waist, and stretching my arms on top of my head--- I moaned with satisfaction.
"How long was I asleep anyway?" I muttered.
"Two hours, seventeen minutes, and forty-eight seconds." says a soft and emotionless voice.
"I see." I answered. "Thank y-."
I shuddered slightly. Immediately jumping away from the voice, I positioned my body to defend and prepare for the worst. At the same time, I locked my eyesight to the person a couple meters away from my previous position. There, a beautiful woman is calmly sitting cross-legged while looking at me with a hint of amusement in her eyes. Her emotionless face makes it harder for people to know what she's really thinking, but one could still see that her beauty is unquestionable. Looking at this woman made me feel like I've seen or met her before.
"Who're you?" I asked.
She blinked a couple times, and with a soft and flat voice, she said.
"... I'm your lord and saviour."
I felt my brows twitched a little, but I tried hard not to show it and acted calm.
"... Excuse me?"
She blinked a couple times and remained quiet. Seconds, minutes passed, but she never answered. Getting irritated by the weird silence, I was about to speak when she slowly stood up, patted her pajama, then left the living room. Seeing her walking out of my broken door made me stopped and question what the fck just happened.
Going outside, I went towards the stairs and looked up slightly. Looks like she went to the upper floor, so without even closing my broken door, I immediately followed her.
Arriving at the sixth floor, I saw her entered a room. Looking at the number displayed on the door, 607, I realized that she was living directly on top of me. This discovery made feel a little bit weird, but I just shrugged it off.
Knocking on her door softly, I called, "hey. Hello?". But no one answered. So again, I knocked the door. Tok-tok-tok! But again, no one answered. Not even a noise coming from the other side could be heard.
Should I try asking if she wanted to build snowman, I thought.
As I was contemplating about the most useless thing a person could think of, I noticed a person standing on the last step of the stairs looking at me with a shocked face. Curious, I looked and learned that it was actually my old classmate, Agnes. Seeing her standing there while eyeing me like a predator imagining the taste of the prey, I immediately called and greeted her politely. She didn't respond though.
Feeling slightly awkward, I decided to try to talk to her again. But before I could even say a thing, I saw her face turning red as she slightly bit her lips, and with her soft voice she asked, ".. you okay?".
Confused by her weird question, I thoughtlessly answered, "yes".
"Then, why are you.." she asked with a heated gaze on her eyes. "... naked?".
Not understanding what she meant, I looked down to see my body.
My light brown skin that looks paler because of the lack of contact with the sun, is quite amazing to look at, specially when that skin covers a well proportioned body that looks like it was made with the most compressed muscles only men could ever dream of having. From neck, traps, delts, biceps, triceps, pecs, upper and lower abs, oblique, quads--- my current body is well packed. But I'm not bulky or huge, also not skinny or thin like before, but more normal and balanced. Since I've been eating well these days, my body easily became better.
Cultivation not only helped me get a perfect body, but also made a certain part of me grew a lot more bigger and robust. And that part of me is only covered by a thin soft cloth that tightly hugs my dragon to prevent it from wrecking havoc in this innocent world.
Thinking about it, I now understand why she reacted like that when she was looking at me.
A man with a long unkempt hair and beard, standing almost naked in front of a door and knocking on it like a fcking creep, while still having the confidence to talk to his old classmate while smiling innocently--- yes, that's the epitome of pervertedness.
Biting my lips hard, I could feel my face and entire body heating up like it was being burned. Deep inside I'm also having the urge to kill all the people around me so no one would remember this blunder. After that I'll bury myself alive and kill myself with a stake on my fcking head, maybe that way I could die peacefully without remembering my stupidity.
While I was planning my future, I heard Agnes giggled a little. She then walked beside me, looked at my eyes with a heated gaze, and slowly touched my body with her cold and smooth fingers like she was trying embed my entire body to her memory. This sudden action caught me off guard making me stand there not knowing what to do. Besides, the feeling of her fingers caressing my upper body's giving me unique sensation like I'm being electrocuted.
Since my ex girlfriend, Ronna, broke up with me, I didn't have the chance to touch or be touched by any woman. So this kind of sudden encounter made me feel perverted. Specially since I started cultivation, I could feel my vigour in certain areas improving like mad. I didn't really have the chance to release that pent up stress so it just kinda built up. Adding to that is Agnes' beauty and hotness, the part of me that was quiet and low key, is now waking up and starting to grew bigger.
The feeling of my dragon getting bigger and bigger made feel awkward. I couldn't help but curse myself for getting hard just because I was slightly touched by a woman. Have I turned this low? It would be really embarrassing if she notice all this. So with all my heart, I tried to act normal without changing my expressions.
"Why are you sweating?" Agnes giggled while still looking at my eyes. "Are you that embarrassed? Don't worry, you have great body so its quite fine."
After she said that, she moved away and stood in front of the door 607, then pulled out a key and inserted it to the lock. When it opened, a burst of sweet smelling fragrance came out of the room making me think that this might be the door to the almighty heaven.
"Come in." Agnes smiled. "It'd be bad if the neighbors see you naked like that."
I'm still kinda hesitant so I tried to say something, but before I could, she already continued.
"I'll also look for something to cover your..." she smirked. "....That. So don't worry."
Inside, while sitting on the sofa with a towel covering my waist, I looked around the room and inspected almost every corner of it. Their place is a lot bigger than mine, at least twice the size of my apartment. But, the design and structure are almost the same. There are only few differences-- like, they have four bedrooms, a huge bathroom, a huge kitchen, and they have furnitures and proper appliances, while mine doesn't have any at all.
The place looks clean and well maintained, simple but relaxing to stay. The decoration of this place is actually quite clever.
"Here." Agnes said, then gave me a mug of coffee.
Accepting it, I said, "thanks", then sip on it. Sweet, I thought.
Sitting beside me, she smiled.
"So, what were you doing in front of my door?"
"Well, I was... having a trouble earlier, when suddenly a woman appears and helped me. So I'm here to thank her, but she wont open the door earlier."
Agnes looked at my body slightly and rolled her eyes.
"Anyway, what"s the trouble?"
"Ah, thats.."
While I was thinking on what to say, I suddenly saw Agnes' eyes shone for a second and vanished immediately. At the same time, I felt like an invisible force enveloped me and inspected everything in my body. When I was about to question what was that, Agnes frowned slightly and looked at me full of worry.
".. You're injured."
Tilting my head, I looked at her feeling confused.
"No, no, I'm not." I answered calmly. "My body's quite fine right now. I just probably need a couple days of rest, and.."
"That's what you called, injured." she said bluntly.
I stayed quiet for a couple of seconds, then looked at her and asked.
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"Okay, how do you know?"
I have some ideas of course, and based from my experience, there should be a high chance that my theories are accurate. But I wont say anything. If she didn't want to say anything about that, then I wont question either.
As expected, she didn't answer. She just gave me a lovely smile that made me look at her more.
"Looks like you already met my cousin."
"If your cousin is living the same place as yours, then probably yes." sipping on my coffee, I added. "The one with an ice queen-like face, right?"
Hearing this, Agnes giggled a little bit.
"Yeah, that's my cousin. And also the landlord of this building."
I nodded and frowned a little bit.
"I see. Actually I find your cousin quite familiar for some reason. I just don't know if we met before."
"You did meet her before."
"Really? Where?"
Agnes smiled and looked at me with strange light in her eyes.
"Remember when you raided a gang, killed six men, rescued some girls?" she then slowly added. "Remember the girl who burned the house? She's my cousin."
Hearing this, my body became stiff, and had to try my best to calm my chaotic mind. Slowly, I looked at her quietly and didn't say anything. My mind is still messy and didn't really have any ideas on how to respond in this kind of situation.
"Don't worry." Agnes smiled. It was beautiful and comforting at the same time. "I know you have lots of question, so why don't we just sit here for a while and talk about it slowly?"
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August 22, thursday.
It was already 3:40pm when I returned to my room and finally get myself clothed properly.
Agnes is an amazing speaker, her social skills is also outstanding. The way she talks and moves, gives people the idea that she's easy and comfortable to talk to. Specially for a former loner like me, she's like blinding goddess that I could only look up to. But those things are actually secondary, in my opinion, the way she manipulate the conversation is even more godly. Even though I know that she was leading me in some way, and I was letting her do that, it still amazed me that we managed to change subject from her cousin and cultivation, to--- I could only sigh.
Going out, I went to the carinderia and decided to eat a lot.
Even though I wont be practicing martial arts, I could still absorb and circulate my Qi, and doing these would be tiring. So I still needed to eat a lot of food. Specially now that my physical body is already a lot more stronger than before after consuming Foundation Pill.
Arriving at the carinderia, I noticed that there are more customer sitting on different tables this time. When I arrived near the counter, I noticed that the two muscular guys earlier are still there. They're now laughing while drinking beer. Looks like they're having the time of their lives.
When I got near them, they immediately called me and we decided to talk a little. A couple minutes later, I learned that these two, Mark and Bugoy, are construction workers who works at nearby construction site. The project just finished, and these two decided to just eat be wasted here. They actually invited their coworkers but they said, they wanted to stay at home with their family and relax for a bit.
"Then, why didn't you stay with your family as well?" I asked.
Both of them frowned, then sighed at the same time.
"We don't have wives and children." Mark said with a hint of sadness in his voice.
"Yeah, so what's the point of staying at home?" Bugoy added.
Feeling the depressing atmosphere, I immediately told them to just forget about those things for now and enjoy the beer. After a couple of laughter, the atmosphere became serious again.
"No, Beers are best to drink when its cold!" Mark declared.
"That's stupid." Bugoy huffed. "Beers are best when its warm!"
Apparently the temperature of the beer is a huge issue for them.
Shaking my head slightly, I left them alone and went towards the counter. There I saw the previous auntie taking orders and preparing them in a haste. Beside her, there's a young girl, probably about nineteen, who's playing with her phone and ignoring everything that's happening in her surroundings. Seeing that the young girl isn't moving, the middle aged auntie snatched the phone and scolded the young girl slightly.
"Why don't you take his order first." said the middle aged auntie while pointing at me.
The young girl rolled her eyes and looked at me, then she clicked her tongue and stood in front of me.
"What do you want?" she asked impolitely.
I didn't bother and directly ordered foods that I want, then told her the quantity of each dish I ordered.
Hearing all that, the young girl frowned and looked at me.
"Can you eat all this?"
"Yes" I answered simply.
"You eat a lot don't you?" the young girl then smiled and looked at me. "But, can you pay this?"
Hearing this, I frowned and stayed quiet.
"I'm sorry, do you have a job? From your face, I can tell you don't. Adults like you are disgrace of this country." the young girl giggled a little bit, then she continued speaking, not even letting her voice down as if she's letting everyone in the place hear what she's saying. "Its amazing that even though you don't contribute to this society, you still have the face to eat a lot? Amusing it is."
While she was speaking, some of the customers looked at our direction, and started whispering to each other. And with my enhance senses, I could easily hear what they're saying. Like, is he begging for food, or a homeless buying food, and other stuffs. Pretty insulting, if I do say myself. My pride is being stepped on by someone I don't even know, and the reason being is just because she's annoyed. The infuriating feeling rising up inside me, but I cant do anything. At least for now.
Unlike my brother that I could hit wherever I want, hitting a bitch is apparently a crime. So I could only stay quiet and suppress my rising anger.
After she finished speaking, a sudden hurried footsteps was heard from the inside of the building, at the same time, the young girl smiled and acted normal like nothing happened. What came out was the middle aged auntie bringing a newly cooked dish and putting it on display. She smiled at me and asked if everything's alright, and I answered, "yes". The young girl smirked and remain silent.
I sat on an empty seat, and waited for the foods I ordered. Then I prepared some things and continued waiting.
When the foods arrived, the young girl delivered it recklessly. She put the dishes on the table not giving any thoughts and care that some of the soups even splattered around. Seeing how she treated the food I ordered, I became even more pissed. Looking at her smirking face, I decided that no matter what happened to her she won't earn sympathy from me.
Before she left, I asked politely if she could clean the table. She laughed and just threw a dirty cloth on top of my table splattering some dust on some foods. Looking at her smug face, I smiled.
I ate all the foods that are clean and left the foods that I considered disgusting, then I raised my hand and called the middle aged auntie. When we met eye to eye, she smiled and immediately stood in front of my table.
"You cant finish it?" she asked.
"Ah, no." I said, then looked at the young girl standing behind the counter. "Is she your daughter?"
Middle aged auntie smiled and nodded.
"You see, when your daughter delivered these dishes to my table, her fingers and nails are touching the food. Pretty disgusting, and when she delivered it, she just recklessly put it on the table splattering some of the food around. Quite dirty. And when I asked if she could clean it, she just threw a dirty cloth full of dust, making those dusts sprinkled on top of these dishes. Again, pretty disgusting."
Then I smiled.
"Thats it, can I order a proper clean food this time?"
Looking at the face of middle aged auntie, she must have thought I'm making this up, so with a smile I looked at my neighbor, Mark and Bugoy, to testify if what I said is true. What they said confirmed it, the way her daughter acted like a bitch was clearly seen by everyone. So with a sorry, the middle aged auntie immediately cleaned my table and gave me a proper dishes this time. At the same time, I heard the middle aged auntie shouting at the young girl and scolding her because of what she had done. From time to time, I could see the young girl glare at me like I'm the most vicious person she have ever met.
Looking at her angry face, I smiled.
Silly bitch, if you thought that was my revenge then wait for it, I'll make sure to destroy your life after this.
While I was eating, a young man and a girl entered the carinderia. These two immediately waved at the young girl behind the counter. Seeing the two, the younger girl smiled and started talking to them. Apparently, they're classmates in the university, and the young man is her boyfriend. They keep talking and talking until their conversation reached the point where even I, an innocent bystander, got involved. The young girl told her boyfriend that I molested and insulted her, to point that even her mother was disgusted.
The boyfriend, after hearing that, became furious. He wouldn't have thought that his girlfriend would be treated like that by a random stranger who doesn't even have a job. So without a thought, he walked towards my direction and stood in front of me. Glaring at me like fcking a murderer.
I didn't bother, of course. To be honest, I also didn't want to listen to their bullshit, but my senses are way too strong, and I'm way too weak to control it properly. So right now, I could only set my senses on a default mode.
"Get up." says the boyfriend.
I continued eating ignoring the young shit in front of me.
"I said, get up!" he slammed his hands on my table making soup and other dishes splattered around everywhere. Then he grabbed my shirt's collar and tried to lift me up. But he couldn't, so he used more strength ripping my shirt's off.
The people from other tables became quiet. They looked at my direction and immediately started whispering each other. There are even people who took out their phones, and started recording it.
Seeing the situation getting escalated, the boyfriend looks happy. He immediately shouted and berated me for things I didn't do. Molesting his girlfriend, insulting her treating her like a dog, acting like he was the hero of the story and people should empathize with him. He also threatened me that he knows this place and knows a lot of people, so I should beware of not acting like that again or no one will see my body ever again.
Some of the people listening to his speech actually believed him, making me feel like this world is much more disgusting than I thought.
How I wish I could kill this people legally.
Getting bored with this shit, I grabbed the boyfriend's wrist, circulated my Qi inside me, and used all my strength to squash the bones in his wrist. Crack! I could hear and feel the bones get destroyed slowly inside. At the same time, I looked at the boyfriend who suddenly squealed like a pig then lost his consciousness because of the pain.
Since the foods are wasted, I didn't continue eating.
Grabbing the back of his neck, I dragged it towards the counter to pay for everything I ate. There, I could see the shock and angry face of the young girl, but I didn't bother with her. I bend down, took the wallet of the boyfriend, and used it to pay for everything.
"What are you doing?!" the young girl shouted. "Taking someone's money just because you cant pay!"
Looking at her, I frowned.
Slowly, I walked in front of her, then grabbed her face like a basketball, looked at her eyes and said.
"Bitch, if you continue messing with me for no reason, I'll make sure.." then I tightened my grip slightly and put a little pressure on it. ".. that dying is the least thing you'd have to worry."
Shortly after, the middle aged auntie came out and looked at the unconscious young man in front of the counter.
"What happened here?" she asked worryingly.
I let go the young girl and looked at auntie. Then taking some money from the boyfriend's wallet, I paid for everything that I ordered earlier. After that, I smiled and left the Carinderia while dragging the boyfriend out towards a back alley. Of course, there are concerned citizen who tried to stop me, but I told them I'll bring this guy to the nearest hospital. They didn't believed me though. So I could only force my way out by using my mental energy.
Since Gaston and Agnes can use it, I got curious on how much my mental energy compared to the two. I specially asked Agnes earlier on how to use energy, spread it to my surroundings, and use it to put pressure on people. It was actually quite easy, so I tried it immediately.
I targeted three people near me who tried to act like a fcking hero. Then concentrated my energy to these three and use all my strength to slammed it on their minds like huge hammer descending from the sky! Bam! All the three jolted slightly, and silently fell down like puppets without strings.
Seeing the bizarre things, the people in the Carenderia stopped and became quiet. Not caring about the shocking thing I did, I continued walking towards the back alley. After arriving there, I chose a secluded corner and threw the guy and slapped him awake!
"You said, you know this whole place, right?" I smilingly asked. "So, tell me. How many gangs, fraternities, or other syndicates do you know? I want it detailed as much as possible."
Seeing him looking at me with dead eyes while staying quiet, I decided to slap him again. Pak!
"Did you hear what I just ask you?"
He started crying while trying to not make any noise. Probably he's also trying his best not feel pain from his broken wrist. But I didn't care. Since he's not answering, I slapped him again. Pak!
"Do I need to repeat myself."
Now he started bawling and continued muttering words like, "sorry.." and "forgive me..", repeatedly. Since I'm not getting anything by a simple slap, I decided to break his bones. I grabbed one of his finger and looked at him in the eye.
"If you don't stop crying, and continue not answering my questions-- I'll break your bones." I smiled. "Do you want that?"
Seeing that he's not stopping, I tightly squeezed his finger and bend it backwards. Tug- a bone just got broken.
Again, he started screaming, but I was prepared, before he could even make a noise, I already used his cloth put it on his mouth. Looking at his crying and hurt face, struggling body--- made me feel bad.
Looks like it'll take a while to gather the informations I want. I thought.
Well, doesn't matter. I'm quite patient after all.
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At that time, strange noises could be heard in a back alley, but when some concerned people went to check it out. Only traces of blood was seen. No one was there.